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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cloud Pak for Data

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Certificate renewal needs to be more transparent and controlled in a time convenient

Customer is using the Watson Studio IDE with Jupyter, spark. They have a team of 30-40 data scientist that work during the day and it appears an internal CP4D certificate renewal. This caused 150 pods to reboot during the day. Although this task s...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Inherited Access to Logical Data Model and its Entities and Attributes

The Business Users would like access to be granted at the Logical Model level, and this access be inherited by all Logical Model Entities and Logical Model Attributes, or access granted at the Logical Model Entity level and inherited at all Logica...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Adding support for three-level namespace structure in WQ

We aim to implement a three-level namespace structure, i.e. <Catalog or Database Name>.<Schema Name>.<Table Name>. This structure is pivotal as the majority of our virtualized tables sourced from Databricks Unity Catalog which us...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

Enhance monitoring within cloud pak for data on resources used by users

Today, a customer can monitor pods in cloud pak for data. But it is difficult to find what user is using a lot of resources. It requires investigation. The customer has created a script that lists watson Studio Jupyter, spark rstudio usage by pods...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

When deleting an external connection to an NFS share, the pvc is not deleted in OpenShift

In cloud pak for data 4.8 a customer can create an external connection to an nfs share. When this connection is created a pvc is created. When this connection is deleted, the connection is deleted from CP4D, but not deleted in openShift. It is exp...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Datastage Anywhere SOFTWARE (not aaS on IBM Cloud) remote data plane - remove or no longer require OpenShift

Anywhere 5.0 requires OpenShift under the remote dataplanes. In discussions with PM and develooment, the need to be able for the RDP on "plain" Kubernetes/Docker rather rather than requiring OpenShift under the RDP on 5.0. Discussion/question to d...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Need clarity on multi-select column analysis availability in IBM Cloud Pak - Currently available in Information Analyzer

There is a function in IA where you can select specific columns to re-analyze. Client wants this functionality in IKC. Please see bullet 1 in the attachment for screenshots and description. (bullet 2 is a different Aha idea).
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

SSO for REST API with Windows Active Directory accounts

We have automated work that would create/run Project and Deployment jobs. The automation is running using Windows Active Directory accounts but current the only way for the accounts to interact with REST API is to use the actual Username+Password ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Under review

Shutdown and restart gracefully entirely CP4D

Background - Customer is using CP4D 4.8.3 On Premise with OCP 4.14 and Spectrum Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) 5.1.9 and Hyper-V for VMs - They need a procedure tested, supported and published in IBM Docs (or TechNote) to shutdown graceful...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Option to write informational or warning messages to flow log

Several customers use this option currently in DataStage 11.7. to write calculated values like UserStatus to the Job Log. In the past Basic Functions like DSLogWarn and DSLogInfo are available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iis/11.7?topic=programmin...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted